French Development Agency

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• French Development Agency

A new funding agency serving coral reefs
In collaboration with French GEF
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Environmental challenges

• Traditional activities (loans, subsidies)
  support to dev. Countries (infrastructures,
  education, water mngt, agriculture, etc.)
• Use natural resources as basis for sustainable
  development
• Multilateral Environmental Agreements - CoB Rio
  1992, Durban 2002
• Partnerships Min. Foreign Affairs, other FU (WB,
  UE, KFW), NGOs (WWF, CI, IUCN)
• Hosting the Secretariat of the French GEF (FFEM)
• Inovative sector coral reefs

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In progress  Initiative for the protection and
sustainable management of coral reefs in the
South Pacific  (CRISP)
Eric CLUA - AFD (TEN-ERN)
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Objectives

• Support to protection and adapted management of
  coral reefs as a basis for sustainable
  development of South Pacific Islands
• Regional integration associate french
  territories and developped countries for
  knowledge and technology transfer to South
  Pacific Islands

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Funding
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Partnerships
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Actions

• Component 1
• 1.1 Marine Protected Areas
• 1.2 Watershed Management
• Component 2
• 2.1 Knowledge, management, economic valorization
  of reef ecosystems
• 2.2 Marine-origin Active substances
• 2.3 Integration of regional database and
  monitoring networks
• 2.4 Coral reefs restoration
• Component 3
• 3.1 Coordination
• 3.2 Capitalization, leveraging

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Geographical aspect
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Time line

• July 2004
• Final approval for AFD-French GEF
• funds

• September-October 2004
• Setting up and signature of conventions with main
  contractors

• Décember 2004
• First fund release

• January 2005
• First on-ground actions - Noumea general meeting

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Aknowledgements
French GEF
Thank you